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log 15 continues the any corporation’s dominance over contemporary architecture journals. the issue documents the lectures presented at sylvia lavin’s symposium “as is” which marked phylis lambert’s 80th birthday. barry bergdoll discusses the display of houses in museums, sylvia lavin explores andy warhol and disco, mark wigley writes about gordon matta clark, jean louis cohen “goes underground with chris marker,” beatriz colomina discusses le corbusier and mies van der rohe, and peter eisenman “paints himself into a corner.”

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log 16 contains another set of stunning essays and reviews including the second part of alejandro zaero polo’s excellent study of the politics of the envelope, mark gage’s debunking of ‘research architecture’ “in defense of design,” sarah whiting discusses “super”, and pier vittorio aureli does more with less in his “notes toward a history of nonfigurative architecture.” the issue also includes an interview with o. m. ungers by rem koolhaas and hans ulrich obrist.

2003-ongoing

cambridge university press: the only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the architecture libri decem (ten books on architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the western world, having shaped architecture and the image of the architect from the renaissance to the present.

2006

rizzoli: perhaps more than any other architect practicing today, peter eisenman has made a career out of devising a dialectic of oppositions in architecture. with references to societal alienation and existing architectural forms, his work derives much from friedrich nietzsche, noam chomsky, and jacques derrida. he led the loosely knit group of architects known as “the new york five” (which included john hejduk, michael graves, charles gwathmey, and richard meier), who made an effort to introduce a theory and artistry of modernist architecture as rigorous as that of the european avant-garde. this is the first comprehensive single-volume overview ever published on eisenman’s buildings and projects, from his first work, house i (1960), to his most recent projects, currently under construction in spain and germany. the book includes all the projects eisenman has created, with essays from international architects and critics, including greg lynn, sanford kwinter, and stan allen.

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there are ten books documenting the ten conferences held by cythia davidson’s any corporation in the 90s. within these books contains the major architects, discourses, and arguments within architecture during the decade and the beginning of the digital age. beautifully designed with discussions and lecture transcriptions from speakers such as greg lynn, peter eisenman, zaha hadid, jeff kipnis, robert somol, jaques derrida, william gibson, ben van berkel, and sanford kwinter. sylvia lavin.

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log 17 , “the superficial issue,” explores issues of form, sensation, mood, styling, and affect in architecture while creating some distance from the contemporary hangups of sustainability, scientific data, and process. the issue contains excellent writings by sylvia lavin, david erdman, and the not to be missed essay “hair and makeup” by jason payne. there are also three illuminating conversations with participants including thom mayne, hernan diaz alonso, marcelo spina, elena manferdini, peter zellner, tom wiscombe, and kivi sotamaa.